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Finally got round to getting some pictures of High Hackton Station (too many visitors lately), it took a bit of thinking how to do a high level station and connect it to the platforms below. Bought a P&D Marsh white metal kit footbridge, fiddly to make but I think the effort is worthwhile, especially as I had to make it skewed to make it parallel to the road overbridge. I'm quite pleased with the outcome, if anyone can see any glaring errors then please let me know.

Another milestone reached today, half of the main layout is now ballasted, just the other half and the terminus station to go.

Anyway, here's a few piccies of the end result, it still needs station furniture and people adding.

General view of the station, canopies are scratch built using plasticard.

This view illustrates the skewed footbridge.

Close up of the main building and the dropped door to footbridge level.

View from platform 1. All the colour light signals are made from CR Signals kits.

This is great, love the pics, but especially love the footbridge. I tried to do something similar on my last layout but failed miserably!

Nice work, inspiring!

The footbridge was quite difficult to assemble, glueing was a bit hit and miss so in the end I assembled it using a combination of soldering and superglue. The lattice sides I soldered to the decking to make sure it had a strong backbone, I didn't have any of the special low melt solder so went very carefully using my smallest (11w) iron and some fine solder, just a quick touch was enough. Once the sides were soldered to the decking I filed any high points off.

Did the same with the stairs, sides were soldered to the steps but when assembled these were superglued to the main structure with just a dab of soldering between the top of the stairs and the main decking to give it strength. The fiddliest bits were the bridge supports, tried soldering but it wasn't successful so ended up just glueing them together, hardest bit was waiting for each individual section to fully dry before assembling into towers.

Once all was fully assembled I gently cleaned it as much as I could and used matt spray paint bought from the local DIY store. Luckily that had a near equivalent to GWR stone No 1 for the base and I then used Humbrol enamel and a fine 00 brush to do the rest.

It turned out much better than I thought it would and is quite a strong model once fully assembled using the method I used.